REV ALEC GILMORE
Michael Cooke in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers: at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News, Weather: and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
by PAULA FOX abridged for radio In five parts by JOY OSBORNE
Read by Bonnie Hurren (1)
A teenage boy and his half-sister set off on a long journey across America to meet his real father, whom he hasn't seen for many years.
Producer CHERRY COOKSON
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week.
The studio guests join Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Sptegl and who knows who else for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
' During the recent hot weather, I saw a young blackbird sitting on the grass with its tail and wings spread out flat on the ground and its beak wide open. Could it have been sunbathing? '
A well-tanned team of experts gather in the studio for this morning's discussion.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 9: 0 Lord of heaven and earth and sea (BBC HB 14): Canticle 6, part 1; Matthew 4, vv 1-11 (RSV): I to the hills will lift mine eyes (BBC HB 459)
New Every Morning, £1.25 (hardback). 50p (paperback), from bookshops
with David Jacobs
An end-of-summer entertainment with the accent on the humorous side of holidays and leisure.
Among those making this step from summer into autumn will be MORECAMBE AND WISE BARBRA STREISAND
FRANKIE HOWERD , FRANK SINATRA DAD'S ARMY. PETER BULL
JOYCE GRENFELL FLANDERS AND SWANN and TONY HANCOCK
Compiled and produced by JOHN DYAS and JOHN WHITEHALL
Country Edition Introduced by Jeanine McMullen looking at some of the delights and problems of living away from the big smokes, including the continuing saga of Doll the Horse and her friend Bert, and some books of country interest.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Tolchard Evans. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
John Parry
Resort to the British Seaside
Barbara Windsor and Paul Barnes in a summer quiz with Irene Thomas.
2.0-2.2 News
Olé for the Costa Brava
Bernard Jackson looks at the Spanish way of life, and joins British holidaymakers in their most popular foreign resorts, Ansell by E. M. FORSTER abridged by MYRA BEATON Read by John Moffat Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Bird who Sang too Soon by PODGE WAXENS
by Frances Mossiker, abridged In 15 parts by Donald Bancroft
Read by Robert Hardy
"To live through Josephine - that is the story of my life.''
"He's funny ... Bonaparte."
BBC Bristol
John Parry
5.5a VHF
Regional news and weather
S.55 Weather, programme news
Starring Tony Hancock
Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer TOM RONALD
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
Frank Muir gives an irreverent commentary on our social history. 3: Art Readers
Alec McCowen , Norman Shelley and Valerie Murray
' A portrait is a painting in which there is something wrong with the mouth.'
Adapted by SIMON BRETT In seven episodes from The Frank Muir Book , to be published 27 September.
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
(Alec McCowen is in ' The Family Dance ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
by Bill Naughton.
'If this got out - why, I couldn't face my workmates of a morning. That son of yours has shamed me ... all his reading, his fancy music and what not. Yet when it comes to it he can't fulfil his married duties ... I'd say there was something very odd and queer about that lot.'
BBC Manchester.
(Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)
at the Edinburgh International
Festival looks at an experimental American theatre company performing in ancient Greek, at the National Puppet Theatre of Japan and at the exotic world of the Russian artist Leon Bakst.
Presenter Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Invisible Man (6)
two American singers, remembered by CHARLES OSBORNK , gramophone records
preceded by Weather
